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Quick Deploy on AWS with CloudFormations¶

AWS Client Setup
Connecting to Amazon Cloud
- Get the Access Keys
Launching the CFN Stack

AWS Client Setup¶

If you already have pip and a supported version of Python, you can install the AWS CLI with the following command:

$ pip install awscli --upgrade --user

You can then verify that the AWS CLI installed correctly by running aws –version.

$ aws --version

Connecting to Amazon Cloud¶

Get the Access Keys¶

Access keys consist of an access key ID and secret access key, which are used to sign programmatic requests that you make to AWS. If you don’t have access keys, you can create them from the AWS Management Console. We recommend that you use IAM access keys instead of AWS account root user access keys. IAM lets you securely control access to AWS services and resources in your AWS account.

For general use, the aws configure command is the fastest way to set up your AWS CLI installation.

$ aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [None]: AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY
Default region name [None]: us-west-2
Default output format [None]: json

Launching the CFN Stack¶

After successful login you can test the credentials.

aws create-stack --stack-name